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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: Opening statements are underway in the retrial of Karen Reid,

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Speaker 1: a Massachusetts woman charged in connection with the death of

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Speaker 1: her boyfriend, who was a Boston Police officer, John O'Keefe.

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Speaker 1: The jury selection process wrapped up on April fifteen, with

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Speaker 1: a rigorous ten day period spanning three weeks. A total

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Speaker 1: of eighteen jurors were chosen to participate in the trial,

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Speaker 1: with twelve of them set to deliberate the case while

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Speaker 1: the others will serve as alternates. Reid, forty five from

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Speaker 1: Mansfield and a former adjunct professor at Bentley University, has

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Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to charges including second degree murder. The

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Speaker 1: prosecution alleges that Reid struck her boyfriend John O'Keeffe with

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Speaker 1: her Lexus SUV outside of residence in Canton during a

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Speaker 1: snowstorm on January twenty nine, twenty twenty two, following a

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Speaker 1: night of heavy drinking. Reed's defense team has indicated they

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Speaker 1: will pursue to a strategy suggesting the involvement of a

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Speaker 1: third party, asserting that someone else is responsible for O'Keefe's

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Speaker 1: death and that read is a victim of a law

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Speaker 1: enforcement cover up. Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan opened by painting

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Speaker 1: a vivid picture of the scene, recounting how EMT's found

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Speaker 1: read screaming and O'Keefe lying in the snow when they

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Speaker 1: arrived at thirty four Fairmont Road. Brennan noted that one

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Speaker 1: of the EMT's overheard read exclaiming, I hit him, I

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Speaker 1: hit him, I hit him. He also informed the jury

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Speaker 1: that O'Keefe's cell phone contains significant data that would aid

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Speaker 1: in uncovering the truth. Let's listen in to opening statements

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Speaker 1: Bennan had held.

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Speaker 2: On her all as well.

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Speaker 3: Will here that its spots around that time. You later

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Speaker 3: learn that she fits two fops. That's help, but that

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Speaker 3: she waits five o'clock. She is franking, she wakes up

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Speaker 3: John's niece. She's unhelped, She's yelling, she screaming. She asks

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Speaker 3: her he needs to call Jenkate.

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Speaker 2: She calls Jener Kate because you'll get genitaated. Be conbviously,

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Speaker 2: she makes up and she hears Jen Jen Jen screaming

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Speaker 2: Agen's name. I think John bolo clock, I think I

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Speaker 2: carry the god Intivation.

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Speaker 1: Calls nine Ober one.

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Speaker 2: She calls hospitals to care of her voice. She spends

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Speaker 2: her okay house, I will help you look at them,

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Speaker 2: and the defendant says, I was so drunk last night,

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Speaker 2: I don't remember anything, and waiting for her to arrive,

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Speaker 2: she learns doesn't ride instead of Ben books to Jandicate's house.

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Speaker 2: Harry Rogers friend Dan goes who's Dedicate's house close behind

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Speaker 2: the car. When she does, John us she can't care

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Speaker 2: for defendant saying, my hare life broken, my hail life broken,

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Speaker 2: and she loooks and it's when the right care light

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Speaker 2: she care like. The defend desperately wants to go to

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Speaker 2: thirty fourth there he wrote that. Kerry Roberts casee and says,

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Speaker 2: we're going to go back to John's house. Babies in

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Speaker 2: the house and you didn't see him. So both cars

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Speaker 2: driven by Terry Roberts and then Jen McKay with the

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Speaker 2: defendantle guns house was stealing video.

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Speaker 3: Could you see it?

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Speaker 4: Go into the house and they look around in your

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Speaker 4: careribout woman, Jen and carry enlisted into this task vocal

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Speaker 4: for John op Bay cannot find him. And then when

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Speaker 4: Kerry Roberts.

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Speaker 2: Comes into a room that was remocated dependance of the

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Speaker 2: staring staring goo.

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Speaker 1: Since her first trial, which resulted in a hung jury,

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Speaker 1: Reid has continued to challenge the charges against her and

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Speaker 1: has expanded her legal representation. She is now accompanied by

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Speaker 1: a team of five lawyers, including Victoria George, who served

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Speaker 1: as an alternate jury during the first trial. In a

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Speaker 1: notable shift, the prosecution is now led by a new attorney.

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Speaker 1: Hank Brennan, who previously defended notorious criminal James Bulger in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, has been appointed as a special Assistant District

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Speaker 1: Attorney to oversee the trial. Due to the considerable public

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Speaker 1: interest in the case, Judge Beverly Cononi has reinstated the

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Speaker 1: broadening of the buffer zone outside the courthouse. This decision

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Speaker 1: came after jurors from the first trial reported disturbances from

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Speaker 1: demonstrators outside the building during their deliberations. The judge emphasized

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Speaker 1: the need for the buffer zone to mitigate any potential

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Speaker 1: outside influence, though protesters are currently challenging this order in court.

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Speaker 1: Karen Reid, forty five, for Mansfield, has pleaded not guilty

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Speaker 1: to the charges. The prosecution alleges that she struck her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: although the defense contends someone else was involved. Focusing on

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Speaker 1: claims of a cover up involving law enforcement. They alleged

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Speaker 1: that O'Keefe was assaulted inside the home, bitten by a dog,

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Speaker 1: and then left outside. Testimony in Read's initial trial began

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Speaker 1: on April twenty nine, twenty twenty four, following the opening statements,

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Speaker 1: and concluded on July one, when jurors reported being unable

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Speaker 1: to reach a unanimous decision and that led to a mistrial.

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Speaker 1: Reed's legal team has committed to continuing their fight, pursuing

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Speaker 1: multiple avenues in court to have the charges even dismissed

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Speaker 1: or thrown out entirely. In the meantime, a federal investigation

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Speaker 1: into the matter has concluded without any charges being filed

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Speaker 1: against the police officers. Ultimately, a new set of jurors

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Speaker 1: will now hear the retrial against Karen Reid. Count on

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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update to keep you posted throughout the

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Speaker 1: trial or crime and justice news after this. Authorities have

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Speaker 1: confirmed that a body discovered over the weekend in the

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Speaker 1: Lake Mead National Recreation Area belongs to doctor Sean Frayner,

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Speaker 1: a well known veterinarian who had been missing since April sixth.

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Speaker 1: The search for doctor Frayner commenced on April seven, when

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Speaker 1: his keys, wallet, and cell phone were located in his

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Speaker 1: car in the Hemingway Harbor area. According to the National

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Speaker 1: Park Service, his remains were located near the Boulder Islands

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Speaker 1: within the recreational park on April eighteen. On April nineteen,

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Speaker 1: the Clark County Corner's Office used dental records to verify

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Speaker 1: Frayner's identity. However, no information regarding the cause or manner

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Speaker 1: of death has been disclosed and is pending further investigation.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this month, doctor Frayner publicly apologized after facing backlash

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Speaker 1: for kicking a horse he had been hired to sedate

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Speaker 1: at a Nevada location. This incident drew significant attention after

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Speaker 1: the video footage surfaced online. In his apology, the veterinarian

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Speaker 1: clarified that he did not intend to harm the horse, saying,

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Speaker 1: I did not blatantly haul off and kick this horse

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Speaker 1: as it appears in the video. This was not my

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Speaker 1: intention at all. It was done simply to get the

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Speaker 1: horse in a better position so that he could breathe

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Speaker 1: and get up and move so I could again try

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Speaker 1: to anesthesize him. He acknowledged, but yes, I did kick

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Speaker 1: him right in the chin, and I very much do

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Speaker 1: apologize and wish this never happened. Following the incident, he

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Speaker 1: was under investigation by the Night County Deputies for potential

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Speaker 1: animal cruelty based on a complaint by the horse's owner.

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